Tensions between Ontario and Ottawa boil over

And budget blowback

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The on-again-off-again relationship between Premier DOUG FORD and Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU seems to be going through some choppy waters (again).

While Ford and Trudeau have generally played nice — making it rain for EVs, for instance — the relationship between Ontario and Ottawa has decidedly hit a rough patch.

Case in point: Ford took his anti-carbon-tax crusade to the next level on Friday and wrote a two-page letter to Trudeau asking for an urgent first ministers’ meeting to discuss the increasingly unpopular carbon tax.

Ford joined his fellow premiers in Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador in urging the PM to sit down and discuss the hot-button levy, which Ford and his PC crew have been railing against at every opportunity.

Ford wrote that the 23 per cent increase in the carbon levy has led to higher gas prices and is making “everything from groceries to home heating more expensive.”

Speaking to reporters in the capital, Ford said …